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ALEC - coming soon to a store near you

• that guy in Arizona

  2014-10-07 08:34:58 PM

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  according to this morning's Al Jazeera, ALEC is now planning to get involved in local politics. since the organization has been very successful at gumming up the works at the state level throughout the country:
  
  http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/american-legislativeexchangecounc..
  
  not surprisingly, the Koch brothers have a strong connection to ALEC .. the top lobbyist for Koch Industries was once the chairman of ALEC, and the Koch brothers have given significant financial support over the years ..
  
  
  http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/alec-exposed-koch-connection#
  
  
  Proposition 122, Arizona's latest attempt to secede from the union, was written by the chief litigator for the Goldwater Institute, which has also received SUBSTANTIAL money from the Koch brothers ..
  
  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Goldwater_Institute#Ties_to_the_Koch_Brothers
• that guy in Arizona

  2014-12-07 08:59:45 AM

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  Proposition 122 was approved by Arizona voters in the mid term auctions that were held a few weeks ago, virtually guaranteeing that the state will be gong to court again to fight the Federal government.
  
  The latest news about ALEC is that the organization held a meeting in D.D. this week. Among other things, the meeting discussed dismantling the EPA, transferring control over fracking to state governments, expanding offshore drilling, and permitting delays to the implementation of the EPA's carbon emissions standards.
  
  http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/5/alec-looks-to-shredeparegulationsgivesvoicetoclimateskeptics.html
  
  Although a number of corporations are pulling out of ALEC, there are still an awful lot that still belong, and there are WAY too many state legislators that have ties to the organization:
  
  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations